Land Mine Treaty
What a shock to read the Sept. 18 front page and see that the United States (along with China, Iraq, Russia, Pakistan, Israel and India) refused to sign the treaty banning antipersonnel land mines. The fact that 100 nations, including Canada, France, Britain, Germany and Italy, have all signed this treaty should be a clue. We continue to be the lone barbarians in the Western world.
One of the outcomes of the mourning of Princess Diana will be that all those Americans who are still grieving will decide that fighting for the ban on land mines (as she did) will be a great homage to her. Beware, Mr. President, this may be something your administration cannot get away with. The public is not always asleep.
DENISE MUNRO ROBB
Los Angeles
* Twice this year--the world conference on the environment and now the land mine treaty--the U.S. has had a chance to join the world’s moral majority. Twice it has failed.
Is it any wonder from a society that allows a thick pall of smog to hang over our city, whose streets rattle with the sound of gun battles?
MARK WATSON
Santa Monica
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